Facebook-Dominion Ruling Blasts ‘Fantastical’ Election Suit
- Lawyers who sued will have to pay the companies’ legal fees
- Judge says the suit was so weak it shouldn’t have been filed
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Lawyers for dozens of Donald Trump supporters who made wild conspiracy claims about Facebook Inc. and Dominion Voting Systems Inc. rigging the 2020 Presidential election will have to pay up for their bogus suit, a federal judge in Colorado ruled.
A pair of attorneys who filed the case on behalf of disgruntled voters violated court rules by making no attempt to verify their “fantastical” allegations against the social-media giant and the voting-technology firm, U.S. Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter concluded Tuesday in Denver.